Today started out like so many others ... At the Dentist. Sometimes I wish I was never on medication ... Then if I wasn't I wouldn't be alive so it is kind of a catch 22 huh??? Anyway, when I got home Dad set to work baling my uncle about 200 bales of hay. While he was doing that I set out to get everything ready for the Month of July. July is turning into the busiest time on the farm, second only to lambing season. We will start the craziness with the petting zoo Thursday. We will be taking Sedan the mini pony, a calf, Jorden, Charlie the sheep, Grover the goat, one of Mom's turkeys, Aflac the duck and Penny the dog. We are providing this petting zoo free for the local Library for their reading program. We will have about 140 kids come through and pet and feed the animals. It takes place in the middle of town so we are keeping it small. I will also give the reading program a door prize to draw for. They are kids and would have no idea what to do with the yarn so we are going to let them have a free visit to the farm for one lucky winner. After that we started to service the equipment and get things ready for our own haying season. First, Mom and I went and picked up this.

For those who don't know this is a pop up hay loader. It will help us load the hay onto the trailer so that we can take it to the barn to pack away for winter. It belongs to my Great Uncle Shoat but his Daughter said we could still use it as long as we like ... It had to be greased and oil the chain Next up was this bueaty ...

This is a four wheel Vicon-Lely Acrobat hay rack.. It had to be Greased up and see all those yellow teeth?? I replaced each broke tooth this year since Dad didn't replace any for the last 3 years. Dad and I had work to get this done yesterday and the day before a little at a time ...

This is our 440 international square wire tie hay baler. We greased it up and got it going when we worked on this ...

This is our Massey Ferguson 165 tractor. It had to have a new battery and wires this year.Add in the time I took out of my day to make these...

Yup, that is 6 leads/leashes in all colors ... I really like them now and I think I am going to keep the hot pink one ... LOL ... shhh don't tell Mom but she was right they are really cool. I think they will sell but we can make more if we want at the show. I will take the stuff I need just in case. While I was busy greasing things up and getting things ready Mom took time to book rooms for both my booth trip and my horse show trip. More of the crazy July happenings ... Tomorrow I will start my day out at the Vet getting Ice's health papers for the trip to Louisiana and Sedan will have his blood work done and get his shots now that he is healthy enough to get them.